Charlie Wall

Charlie Wall (10 March 1880-18 April 1955) was an American crime boss from Tampa, Florida who ran the gambling, prostitution, and numbers rackets in the city until his 1955 murder at the hands of the Trafficante crime family.

Biography
Charlie Wall was born on 10 March 1880, and he made money through gambling, prostitution, and numbers rackets in Tampa, Florida. During the 1920s, he fought against Ignacio Antinori and the Trafficante crime family for control of the rackets in the Tampa area, and his associate Evaristo Rubio was murdered in 1938. In 1940, the murder of Antinori in response to a hit attempt on Wall ended the war, and Wall returned to leading Tampa. He was forced to testify before the Kefauver Committee in 1951, but he did not cooperate with the investigators. On 18 April 1955, Wall was beaten to death with a baseball bat and had his throat slit, possibly by Trafficante hitmen.